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Geography of the Pacific
Division The Pacific Division of the
ARRL includes the State of California from the Oregon border
on the north to the lower end of the San Joaquin Valley
(Kern Co.); the counties of Alpine and Mono along the Nevada
border east of the Sierra Nevada mountains and south of Lake
Tahoe; and the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa
Cruz, and Monterey along the Pacific Ocean south of San
Francisco. The inland counties along the Nevada border south
of Mono County and the coastal counties south of Monterey
County are part of the Southwestern
Division. In addition to the part of California described above,
the Pacific Division includes all of the States of
Nevada
and Hawaii
and the U. S. Pacific Ocean islands to the west,
such as American Samoa,
Guam, Saipan, and the Mariana
Islands. U. S. military bases and other facilities using AP
ZIP Codes are also part of the Pacific Division. Our Pacific Division is divided into seven Sections, and
we invite you to check out the Section
for your location. You'll find radio
clubs, RACES/ARES activities, Hamfests, community
service opportunities, radio-oriented youth groups, and much
more.
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What is Ham Radio?
A housewife in North Carolina makes friends over the radio with another ham in Lithuania. An Ohio teenager uses his computer to upload a digital chess move to an orbiting space satellite, where it's retrieved by a fellow chess enthusiast in Japan. An aircraft engineer in Florida participating in a "DX contest" swaps his call sign and talks to hams in 100 different countries during a single weekend. In California, volunteers save lives as part of their involvement in an emergency response. And from his room in Chicago, a ham's pocket-sized hand-held radio allows him to talk to friends in the Carolinas. This unique mix of fun, public service and convenience is the distinguishing characteristic of Amateur Radio. Although hams get involved for many reasons, they all have in common a basic knowledge of radio technology and operating principles, and pass an examination for the FCC license to operate on radio frequencies known as the "Amateur Bands." These bands are radio frequencies reserved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for use by hams at intervals from just above the AM broadcast band all the way up into extremely high microwave frequencies. If you have a
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